“Is pleasant reading. He might with advantage have given a little more time to contemporary Icelandic literature before printing his censures: he is too ready to cry ‘All is barren,’ and hardly appreciates the variety of life, the mixture of old fashions and modern culture in that wonderful country. Some of his statements may be flatly contradicted by other travellers, who have found better entertainment there and little of the squalor which seems to have beset Mr. Annandale.” W. P. Ker.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 191. Ja. ’06. 580w.
Anstruther, Elizabeth. Complete beauty book. **$1.25. Appleton.
“Beauty is a matter of health, dress, and winsomeness,” the author declares in her introduction, and she follows her assertion with sensible advice upon the care of the body, a detailed plea for fresh air, exercise, and cold water, with some additional counsel upon clothes and conduct. The skin, diet, digestion, the hair, the hands, feet, and teeth, fatness and thinness and charm of manner are treated in successive chapters.
“With the utmost good sense and simplicity, we are told just how to keep well and to be beautiful.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 880w.
Arbiter in council: a collection of papers on war, peace and arbitration. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Is there any reason to hope that right ever will be ready? This is the question which the ‘Arbiter in council’ essays to answer. In form, the work is a series of colloquies initiated by a veteran Liberal, a disciple of Bright and of Cobden, and a lifelong advocate of peace and arbitration.” (Lond. Times.) The subjects discussed, one for every day during a week, are the causes and consequences of war, modern warfare, private war and the duel, cruelty, the federation of the world, arbitration, the political economy of war and Christianity and war.